swot

¹ American  

[swot] / swɒt /

verb (used with object)

swotted, swotting

1. swat.

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swot ² American  

[swot] / swɒt /

verb (used without object)

swotted, swotting

1. to study or work hard.

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noun

1. a student who studies assiduously, especially to the exclusion of other activities or interests; grind.

2. hard study or hard work; concentrated effort.

swot ¹ British  

/ swɒt /

verb

1. (often foll by up) to study (a subject) intensively, as for an examination; cram

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noun

1. Also called: swotter.  a person who works or studies hard

2. hard work or grind

SWOT ² British  

abbreviation

1. strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats: an analysis of a product made before it is marketed

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swot ³ British  

/ swɒt /

verb

1. a variant of swat 1

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Other Word Forms

• swotter noun

Etymology

Origin of swot

First recorded in 1840–50; dialectal variant of sweat

Example Sentences

She calls herself a swot, which translates roughly to an overenthusiastic student.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2019

Where Purves was the school swot and Singleton the prim head girl, Noakes was the boy at the back of the class disrupting the lesson.

From BBC • May 29, 2017

For all his brains and later academic renown, he was no swot: he started cramming five days before finals, from an undemanding textbook nicknamed “Economics for the Half-witted Child”.

From Economist • Aug. 13, 2015

So if you want to get the scoop on friends and colleagues, swot up on this list…

From Forbes • Jun. 5, 2015

Just drill and march and drill again, And swot at the old parade, But they got two hundred thousand men.

From The Guards Came Through and Other Poems by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir